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Two Dietary Studies on Heart Disease

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Both are opposed to the usual advice to avoid dietary fat. Not random experiments, mind you, but still interesting: Sara Holmberg, Anders Thelin and Eva-Lena Stiernström. Food Choices and Coronary Heart Disease: A Population Based Cohort Study of Rural Swedish Men with 12 Years of Follow-up. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2009, 6, 2626-2638. Nutritional recommendations are frequently provided, but few long term studies on the effect of food choices on heart disease are available. We followed coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality in a cohort of rural men (N = 1,752) participating in a prospective observational study. Dietary choices were assessed at baseline with a 15-item food questionnaire. 138 men were hospitalized or deceased owing to coronary heart disease during the 12 year follow-up...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on October 14, 2009 (boomark / email).